Character Quotes

• Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Book
  • High

• With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Challenge

• That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk.

  

  Martin Luther
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

  

  Chris Penn
  • Believe
  • Character

• You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Character
  • Help
  • Support

• Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Great
  • Character

• Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you...

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Piece

• There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Character

• I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

  

  David Gallagher
  • Done
  • Character
  • Challenge

• Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Adversity

• Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Character
  • Wife

• The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

  

  Jeffrey Klarik
  • Real
  • Dark
  • Explore

• Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • World
  • Giving
  • Way

• I truly think a long career is to keep the audience guessing and not being able to be boxed, and for me, I'm not hell-bent on playing the lead in things as long its an interesting character with phenomenally talented people, and it's a script that I feel is genuinely innovative, creative, and potentially interesting for an audience.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Character

• As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Character

• 'God' is the name given to the most ‘important’ human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

  

  Laura Riding
  • God
  • Important
  • Question

• I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Judge
  • Judging

• There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

  

  David Warner
  • Good
  • Single
  • English

• My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Hope
  • Ethics

• You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

  

  Linda Cardellini
  • Character

• I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Character

• If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Real
  • Society
  • Quality

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